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Essays On Currency Risk Management, Nehad Elsawaf
Essays On Currency Risk Management, Nehad Elsawaf
Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration
In recent years a growing number of corporations have committed considerable resources to risk management, indicating the potential for risk management to protect and increase firm value. One can argue that most prior attempts to directly link the value of the firm to its hedging strategies are rather scant. Moreover, several questions with regards to firms' risk management activities remain unanswered. This study consists of two essays dealing with a series of questions regarding corporate risk management in modern U.S. multinational corporations.
In the first essay we first, test the valuation effects of currency hedging policies of firms around extraordinary …
A Note On The Preferred Hedge Instrument, Arthur Hau
A Note On The Preferred Hedge Instrument, Arthur Hau
Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies Working Paper Series
Contrary to Battermann et al.'s (2000) claims, this paper shows that risk-averse exporters may produce less with fair commodity futures than with fair put options; moreover, they may prefer the latter instrument for hedging against its exchange rate risk.